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The Lewes Bonfire Night, or the Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations, is the biggest celebrated Fifth November Event in the world, and is held in the usually peaceful county town of Lewes (pronounced “lu-is or loo-is”), East Sussex, every year on 5th November, and the carnival or festival is known as either the Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations, Lewes Bonfire Night or just simply the Fifth.

It is the biggest and the only proper bonfire night celebration left of its kind in the Uk. This year it will be on Thursday, 5th November 2015.

You may not be working on Tuesday 23 April, but if you are please book the day off work and join thousands of others who want to make St. George’s Day a bank holiday. If we all take a holiday on the same day it will send a powerful message to those in charge.

Help us persuade the government to give England a bank holiday on St Georges Day. Book the day off work on Tuesday 23 April, 2013 and celebrate St. Georges Day with friends and family.

Happy Chinese New Year 2013, Year of the WaterSnake: Celebrate by ordering in a delicious Chinese meal

The Lunar New Year dates from 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac. Because of cyclical lunar dating, the first day of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the mid-February. On the Western calendar, the start of Chinese New Year this year falls on Sunday, February 10, 2013 — The Year of the Water Snake.

San Francisco has the oldest and largest Chinatown in the United States and is home to the largest population of Chinese outside of China. The New Year’s celebration is a continuation of a tradition in Chinatown that had been part of the neighborhood since the 1860s, the Gold Rush days.

If you were born in 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, you were born under the sign of the Snake.

Like the houses of the zodiac in Western astrology, the animals of Chinese astrology are thought by many to dictate personality traits or even to impact world events in any year they rule.Snake and those born under compatible signs benefit from good fortune during a Snake year.

Chinese New Year, 10 February 2013: Year of the Water Snake

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Canadian coin with Year of the Snake design

2013 Prediction for Snake

Snake can expect good fortune in relationships and look forward to a time when they personally or professionally shine. It will be a year when Snake can easily overcome recent setbacks or obstacles experienced in 2012. Even though Snake may not have the income desired in the first half year, financial fortune comes in the second half year.

Snake Characteristics

Self-reliant Snake’s characteristics are complex. Snakes don’t like to ask others for advice and some see them as cold and calculating – not so, they are just being careful.They need to plan every detail before embarking on an objective. Snake has excellent communications skills, but they are creatures of few words. Quiet and unassuming, they prefer to work alone and are more often in the spotlight for real and lasting accomplishments than for attempts at garnering attention. Actually, they can be a lot of fun when they want to be and they exude a charismatic confidence that is quite sexy.They have the ability to shed adversity like a second skin, and their recuperative powers are legendary.

The innovative line of BlackBerry smartphones that Research In Motion will formally unveil wednesday 30th Jan 13 has already succeeded on one crucial count – getting RIM back in the conversation.

The new BlackBerry 10 has created a buzz among technology watchers and financial analysts, thanks to nifty features that may set it apart in an overcrowded smartphone market. RIM stock has almost tripled over the past four months on hopes the devices can restore RIM to sustained prosperity.

Transport is proving very difficult today in Brighton, if you live outside of central Brighton and in hilly areas the delivery drivers may not be able to get the food to you, we will be speaking with the individual restaurants to check as they open, thank you for your understanding

10 Random Facts You Didn’t Know About Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley fans are probably the greatest fans in the world.Last night an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 devotees trekked to Graceland in Memphis, Tennesseeand gathered at Presley’s home with candles, flowers and other items to leave at Elvis’s gravesite.Some fans even arrived in sideburns and pompadours in honor of the late singer.

This candlelight vigil is the main attraction during “Elvis Week” which is held this time every year since he

died on August 16, 1977.

Most people know something about Elvis Presley (he wore a pompadour, he sang a song about a

“Hound dog,” and he did that cool dance with his wobbly knees) but here are 10 of the weirdest things you didn’t know about The King of Rock N’ Roll.

1) His entourage was referred to as the Memphis Mafia. All members wore diamond and gold rings with

the letters TCB imprinted which stood for “Take Care of Business.” Daaaannnnngggg. He wasn’t joking about “Jailhouse Rock.”

2) He made 31 movies in his lifetime. Imagine 31 precursors to the Justin Bieber 3D film.

3) Elvis was blonde for most of his life. He started dying it black to appear edgier.

4) Sometimes in the early 1960’s Elvis adopted a chimpanzee named Scatter. Apparently Scatter liked to

look up women’s skirts. Pervy monkey.

5) Despite his huge worldly following, Elvis only performed 5 shows outside the US and all of them were

in Canada. The only time he stepped foot on British soil was during a layover.

6) Elvis was a direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln’s great-great grandfather and Elvis was a distant cousin

of Jimmy Carter. How about that for a family tree?

7) When he was 11 he purchased his first guitar, he wanted a rifle but his mom persuaded him to buy a

guitar instead.

8) Elvis’s manager was a small-time crook. Before Colonel Tom was managing Elvis, he would paint

sparrows yellow and sell them as canaries.

9) Occasionally when performing, Elvis would change the lyrics to his songs and he changed the lyrics

of “Are You Lonesome Tonight” from “Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?

To “Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair?”

10) Actor Nicolas Cage, who was briefly married to Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley, was the only

person aside from Presley’s immediate family to see the inside of Elvis’s Graceland bedroom.